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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "THE FORMER TREATISE HAVE I MADE O THEOPHILUS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Reference to the gospel of Luke.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Luk',1,1);">LUK 1:1</a> Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Luk',1,2);">LUK 1:2</a> Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Luk',1,3);">LUK 1:3</a> It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Who was Theophilus?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There are many suggestions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some believe that he was once Luke's master. In those days physicians were often slaves. The suggestion has been made that he accepted the gospel through the preaching of Paul, and was so grateful that he sent Luke to be a companion of Paul because of Paul's sickly condition.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Some believe that there really was no Theophilus. The name comes from two Greek words, "Theos" and "phileo". Theos is God and phileo is lover. So that Luke is writing to all lovers of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. I do believe that Theophilus was a real person, but I like the idea that the books were written to all lovers of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Who was Luke?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We know that he was a physician. In <a onClick="return mV('Col',4,14);">COL 4:14</a>, Paul calls him, Luke, the beloved physician.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He was a careful researcher.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. In describing those who Jesus healed, he uses the proper medical terms to describe their conditions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He evidently joined up with Paul and became a part of the missionary team when Paul was in Troas, for this is where the narrative changes to the personal pronoun.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act', 16,6);">ACS 16:6</a> Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',16,7);">ACS 16:7</a> After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',16,8);">ACS 16:8</a> And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',16,9);">ACS 16:9</a> And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',16,10);">ACS 16:10</a> And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We know that Paul was sick as he was going through Galatia.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',4,13);">GAL 4:13</a> Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',4,14);">GAL 4:14</a> And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It is possible that Luke was called to come to minister to Paul in his sickness, and that is how they became acquainted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "OF ALL THAT JESUS BEGAN TO BOTH DO AND TEACH, UNTIL HE WAS TAKEN UP."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The key word is "began."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The gospel of Luke is the story of the beginning of the ministry of Jesus Christ in the earth. His teaching, His works.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The idea conveyed here is that the ministry of Jesus Christ did not end with His ascension into heaven. But He continues to work and teach, only now, it is through His apostles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Notice the words "After that." After what? After He was taken into heaven, "He through the Holy Spirit, gave commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. What Luke is saying is that the works of Jesus and the teaching of Jesus continues. He continues to work and teach, only now it is through the power of the Holy Spirit, in the lives of the believers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Thus the book of Acts of the Apostles is an open ended book. It continues to the present day, and will continue until He returns.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The work of Jesus continues today throughout the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus said in <a onClick="return mV('Jhn',14,12);">John 14:12</a>, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall He do also, and even greater works than these shall He do, because I go unto My Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The book of the Acts of the Apostles is a continuation of the gospel of Luke. It is like the second chapter of Luke.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES TAKES UP WHERE THE GOSPEL OF LUKE ENDS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We have a few crossover verses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Luke's gospel ends with Jesus on the Mount of Olives up into heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Acts begins with Jesus on the Mount of Olives ascending into heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Luke's gospel ends with Jesus telling of the promise of the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Acts begins with Jesus speaking of the promise of the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Luke's gospel ends with Jesus telling them to wait in Jerusalem until they receive the promise of the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Acts begins with Jesus telling them to wait in Jerusalem until they are endued with power from on high.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Luke's gospel ends with Jesus telling them that the gospel is to be preached to all nations beginning at Jerusalem and that they would be witnesses of these things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. Acts begins with Jesus telling them that they will be witnesses unto Him both in Jerusalem, all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. Luke's gospel ends with Jesus telling them that the power from on high would enable them to preach the gospel to be witnesses to all the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">10. Acts begins with Jesus telling them that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit had come upon to be His witnesses to all the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. "TO WHOM HE SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Paul gives a partial list of the appearances of Jesus after His crucifixion in his first letter to the Corinthians.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,3);">1CO 15:3</a> For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,4);">1CO 15:4</a> And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,5);">1CO 15:5</a> And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,6);">1CO 15:6</a> After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,7);">1CO 15:7</a> After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,8);">1CO 15:8</a> And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Many infallible proofs:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The eyewitness accounts of those who saw Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If there is any validity to our system of jurisprudence, then you must accept the fact of the resurrection.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Facts are determined on the basis of the testimony of witnesses sworn to tell the truth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The testimony of two or three witnesses is sufficient to determine the facts of the case.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You may argue that the witnesses of the resurrection were not cross-examined.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. You do not have all of the facts, they were cross- examined in ways that are not legal today.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. They were threatened with death, and were put to death by the hundreds because they would not recant their testimony.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Do I believe that George Washington was the first president of the United States?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. On what premise do I base my belief?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The written record of many witnesses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. I never saw him, I have to believe that those who wrote of him were telling the truth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. It is no stretch from believing in George Washington to believing in Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. My beliefs are based on the same premise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. If I do not believe in Jesus Christ, it is because I have chosen not to believe on Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. Why would I make such a choice? Because I love evil, and He has condemned evil.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The changed lives of His followers after seeing Him after His resurrection.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Peter before the resurrection for fear of the council denied that he ever knew Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. After the resurrection he boldly proclaimed to the same council that:</div>
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ACS 4:9</a> If we this day are be examined because of the good deed done to the lame man, by what means he is made whole;</div>
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ACS 4:10</a> Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole.</div>
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ACS 4:11</a> This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.</div>
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ACS 4:12</a> Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.</div>
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ACS 4:13</a> Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, they marvelled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Their boldness in preaching the gospel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Their undaunting faith in the face of death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. The great miracles that they did.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. The 180-degree transformation of the life of Paul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. "HAVING BEEN SEEN OF THEM FOR FORTY DAYS."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was three days in the grave, seen of them for forty days, that means their waiting for the promise was only about a week's time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. What was the purpose of His being around for that length of time?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I believe that He was getting them accustomed to the notion that He was with them even though they did not see Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When the disciples were declaring to skeptical Thomas that Jesus had risen, and he declared that he would not believe until he could see positive evidence. He wanted to see His hands. He wanted to see His side that had been pierced by the sword.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The following Sunday night as Jesus appeared to the disciples again, Jesus told Thomas to look at His hands, feel His side. Where was Jesus when Thomas was expressing his doubts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I believe that it was a time of intense study of the scriptures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. To the disciples on the road to Emmaus, He expounded to them from Moses through the prophets all the scriptures concerning Himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Luke tells us He was speaking to them of the Kingdom of God.</div>
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